ISLR lab doc Rnorm(50,2,3) 50 is number of observations, 2 is mean and 3 is standard deviation. Default is 0 mean and 1 standard deviation. Byrow true in a matrix means that the numbers we put in a particular sequence will be put row wise cor(x,y) gives correlation between x and y getwd() you will get the directory where your files have been saved google search ISLR